Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a books….

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader..

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in..

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site..

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND..

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight….

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant ….

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected.

This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried man….

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own r….

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books..

But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I….

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want..

I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just googl….

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight..

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work..

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage..

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are ….

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits..